Hacker News with Generative AI: Web Design

In-Depth Guide to the Best Free Fonts (beautifulwebtype.com)
“Before he died in 2013, the great sociologist Robert Bellah said that his view of everything he’d studied across his life was tilted on its axis by this late recognition: when mammals began to bring forth offspring from the center of their bodies, spiritual life became possible. With apes and far more with humans, the period of necessary parental care—care in order for the offspring to survive—became longer and longer.
Design, Typography, Web Design
25 points by Tomte 34 days ago | 6 comments
The Agentic Web and Original Sin (stratechery.com)
I have come to believe that advertising is the original sin of the web.
Web Design, Technology, Ethics
12 points by prawn 37 days ago | 2 comments
The Decline of Usability: Revisited (2023) (datagubbe.se)
Three years ago, I wrote a rant about the problems of our current UI paradigm.
Usability, User Interface, Web Design
97 points by turrini 37 days ago | 80 comments
Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)? (ycombinator.com)
Just yesterday I tried to find examples of good high information density UIs... and seems to be an impossible task.
Web Design, Information Density
530 points by troupo 50 days ago | 370 comments
The 12-bit rainbow palette (iamkate.com)
I designed the 12-bit rainbow palette for use on National Grid: Live. It consists of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive luminance, chroma, and hue:
Design, Color Theory, Web Design
325 points by rguiscard 60 days ago | 81 comments
CSS Zen Garden (csszengarden.com)
A demonstration of what can be accomplished through CSS-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page.
CSS, Web Design, Design, Front-End Development, HTML
329 points by onat1 62 days ago | 166 comments
Sign in to Have I Been Pwned (But Not Login, Log in or Log On) (troyhunt.com)
How do seemingly little things manage to consume so much time?! We had a suggestion this week that instead of being able to login to the new HIBP website, you should instead be able to log in. This initially confused me because I've been used to logging on to things for decades:
Security, User Experience, Web Design
6 points by dmarto 63 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: What is the best font and styling combo for readability on the web? (ycombinator.com)
As I read HN I often come across personal blogs / websites that look great and are visually easy to read, but I change my mind on what is "best" all the time.
Web Design, Typography, User Experience, Best Practices
17 points by duxup 73 days ago | 12 comments
We are still using 88x31 buttons (ultrasciencelabs.com)
If you surf the modern "small web" to any extent you've encountered 88x31 buttons - a staple of late 90s and early 2000's websites1 undergoing a bit of a revival. The Neocities community especially seems to have truly embraced them. 88x31 buttons have a long history on the web, straddling the worlds of advertising and the personal web.
Web Design, Retro Technology, Internet History, Aesthetics
142 points by PaulHoule 83 days ago | 55 comments
404s – gallery of error 404 page designs (404s.design)
For all the 404 pages out there—just waiting to be found.
Web Design, User Experience, Error Pages
77 points by ChrisArchitect 84 days ago | 13 comments
Hyperlegibility (notboring.co)
Information that was once hard to find is now hard to avoid.
Information Design, Accessibility, Web Design
20 points by jger15 94 days ago | 1 comments
Colored Bar Paper Colors (mw.rat.bz)
Recently I created an article titled Retro Monochrome and High Contrast Color Display Palettes. That article deals with colors that are used when having bright text on dark backgrounds. In this article I feature colors to be used as light background colors with dark (usually black) foreground text on top.
Design, Color Palettes, Web Design
27 points by m_walden 96 days ago | 8 comments
7159997483.com (7159997483.com)
You Are Now Mine
Marketing, Domain Names, Web Design
8 points by bigblind 102 days ago | 6 comments
Take a New Look at CSS Shapes (2018) (smashingmagazine.com)
This week, CSS Shapes ships in a production version of Firefox with the release of Firefox 62 — along with a very nice addition to the Firefox DevTools to help us work with Shapes.
CSS, Web Development, Web Design, Firefox
16 points by Tomte 103 days ago | 6 comments
Shopkeeper (robinsloan.com)
Retail, Web Design, Personal Projects
46 points by herbertl 104 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: I built a free SVG Web site (websvg.com)
Web SVG Images: Everything you need for your digital craft & design projects.Find free SVG icons, SVG animations, and SVG tutorials to get you going.
Web Design, SVG, Free Resources
60 points by emson 110 days ago | 46 comments
Accessibility: Don't Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media (adrianroselli.com)
I posted something on Mastodon that uses Unicode math symbols to produce fake bold and fake italic text.
Accessibility, Social Media, Web Design, Unicode
64 points by rapawel 111 days ago | 66 comments
If your content is only on social media, I'm not going to see it (coryd.dev)
If you only post on social media, I won't see it. If you don't have an RSS feed, I won't follow it, I won't subscribe to it. I don't want want your app because I don't want a homescreen full of apps for publications and platforms.[1]
RSS, Social Media, Content Consumption, Web Design, Digital Publishing
5 points by divdivtable 113 days ago | 1 comments
Matt's Script Archive (1995) (scriptarchive.com)
Welcome to Matt's Script Archive. Offering free CGI scripts to the web community since 1995!
Web Development, Programming, Web Design, Scripts
158 points by huang_chung 117 days ago | 59 comments
Show HN: No-html.club, a plain text club (no-html.club)
Web Design, Community, Plain Text, Minimalism
22 points by dominicq 120 days ago | 2 comments
Strong Opinions on URL Design (vale.rocks)
I came to realise the other day that, for reasons unbeknownst to me, I have very strong opinions on URL structures.
Web Design, Opinions, User Experience
6 points by mooreds 123 days ago | 1 comments
Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website (localghost.dev)
If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website. A little home on the independent web.
Personal Websites, Web Development, Web Design, Internet Culture
242 points by spzb 125 days ago | 106 comments
Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com? (ycombinator.com)
Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?
Reddit, Social Media, Internet, Web Design
12 points by distortedsignal 126 days ago | 16 comments
Making Space for a Handmade Web (figma.com)
There’s a resurgence of small, handcrafted sites challenging the current trajectory of the internet. Joining the movement is as simple as making your own.
Web Design, Web Development, Design Trends
17 points by handfuloflight 130 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Who else is tired of these web things? (ycombinator.com)
The web has become borderline intolerable, and these things are among the reasons why. I've developed a "zero tolerance" habit. If a website throws up a surprise popup, I just immediately close the page and never go back. The only way to win is not to play.
Web Design, User Experience, Internet
16 points by mring33621 134 days ago | 17 comments
I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023) (localfirstweb.dev)
The flap of a butterfly’s wings on one continent, so the story goes, can cause a tornado a year later in another. Here’s my story of how something like that can happen on the web too.
Web Development, Community Building, User Experience, Web Design
226 points by mooreds 136 days ago | 132 comments
UbuWeb – Founded 1996 (ubu.com)
A year ago, we decided to shutter UbuWeb. Not really shutter it, per se, but instead to consider it complete.
Web Design, Art, History, Archive
7 points by XzetaU8 141 days ago | 2 comments
Patterns for Personal Web Sites (2003) (rdrop.com)
These patterns for creating personal Web sites have been distilled over the last few years from the most interesting personal Web sites I've found. For more information on these patterns, please read the introduction.
Web Design, Personal Websites, Web Development
120 points by matthberg 145 days ago | 17 comments
Marginalia – A search engine that prioritizes non-commercial content (marginalia-search.com)
This is the new design and home of Marginalia Search.
Search Engines, Non-Commercial Content, Web Design
578 points by herbertl 152 days ago | 73 comments
Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web (csswizardry.com)
If you’re going to build for the web, build on the web and build with the web.
Web Development, Front-End Development, Web Design
6 points by keepit 153 days ago | 1 comments